Strange pet behavior

[WillParkinson]

My dog, Bailey LOVES to spoon. He has the need to be right next to me when I sleep. I'm figuring it comes from the bad people who had him before us.

My kitty, Cider, loves it when people go into the bathroom. He runs in and starts grabbing at the back of their pants. If, somehow, he is able to get them down far enough he'll climb in while you're standing at the toilet.

What about your fur-family?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. He might need one of these...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4170220

[WillParkinson]

2. Nah, can't be...

They're both fixed.

[MissMillie]

3. My sister's cat

is similar to your Cider. If the cat can get into the bathroom when you're in there, she will climb into your pants as soon as you drop them to sit down.

My cats like to be right up close to me when I sleep, especially when I am sick. It's like they *know* that I need them.

My youngest cat, Cosmo, eats w/ his hands. He opens up the pads on his paw, sticks the paw into the food dish, and then closes the pads as to trap whatever kibble he can between the pads, then he eats from his paw.

[WillParkinson]

4. Ooh

Cosmo....that's tooooo adorable!

[MissMillie]

5. Thanks... he really is

[WillParkinson]

8. VERY pretty!

What kind of kitty is he?

[hyphenate]

11. He's just a baby!

Adorable!

[sakabatou]

6. My dog would crawl on his belly o get an itch

[WillParkinson]

7. Begging?

That's too sweet.

[sakabatou]

10. No no

He would crawl on his belly with his legs behind him and have this stupid grin on his face.

[radwriter0555]

21. Ah, we called that the GI Joe, but we all knew our little Joey was rubbing

his little wenis for the THRILL of it.

*cough*

[Tikki]

9. Tikki buries small bits of ....

bread or whole doggie treats in the dirt...she digs a small hole and covers up the orts with dirt she pushes with her nose. Sometimes when we give her treats while she is in the house she will hide them under the pillows on the bed.

Even though we got her as a pup...she must have had to scrounge for food when she was very little...I believe this is a hording behavior.


Tikki

[skygazer]

12. Oops greets us by kneading his claws on our shoes

He's done this since he was a baby (my SO had his mother so he was born here). We have no idea where the behavior came from - it's just his way of saying, "hi, I'm so glad you're home!". He's ruined several pair of sneakers that way and I always feel bad when I don't let him do it to a good pair of shoes.

Your dog may not be responding to those bad people - my Dixie, who I had from a pup, had to spoon. It was just her nature - she was a cuddler. Our other Boxer slept at the foot of the bed but she'd cuddle so close, I'd find myself with about two inches on the very edge! It was quite cute.

[Nikia]

13. My dog cuddles too

We adopted him from the Humane society as an adult. We wonder about his earlier life. He is afraid of brooms and mops, for example. he quickly bonded with us though.
One weird thing that he has been doing lately, while we are away, is ripping up magazines that we have lying in the bathroom to read. He has a water dish in there and ends up getting pages in there, soaking up the water. Perhaps he lies down on them since the floor is linoleum. Most of the rest of the house is carpeted though and we even have clothes lying on the floor most of the time, which he also likes lying on.

[Guava Jelly]

14. last night like this is really creepy

I was watching some JFK assassination documentary when i fell asleep on the couch.
When i woke up 10 minutes later my cats were in an almost perfect triangle staring at me...


WOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!

[Jamastiene]

15. My cats do that too. I have three of them and they like

to watch me sleep. The only difference is that mine like to sit in a semicircle around the couch or the bed. It's weird to know I am being watched so closely while I sleep, but I would rather they watch me that anyone else. I feel safe knowing they are paying attention. Of course, the could be plotting like these kitties:
http://www.rathergood.com/laibach/

[hatredisnotavalue]

16. My cat Tumona is allergic to of all things.....

cat dander.....We brought her to the vet and she was diagnosed as being allergic to herself. And you can't be given allergy medication if you are the source of the allergy.
So she sneezes and leaves these these huge horrible messy snots everywhere. On the windows. On the couch. On the side of the TV. And she loves to sleep on things that are warm, including my old lap top.

And I emphasize the word "old."

During one of her sneezing fits atop my lap top she let go a huge lungy which dripped inside of the keyboard and fried it. She also pees and poops in the corner of the kitchen every day. She kills chipmunks and squirrels regularly and an occasional song bird.

She is also very needy and has to sleep on your chest at every moment until she gets flung off for sneezing in your face.

Behind her back we call her MOTAC.. minion of the anti-christ.

[brentspeak]

17. The dog downstairs, was abused and abandoned when it was a pup

(by two previous owners)

He whimpers and barks hysterically whenever anyone tries to leave the house. He will actually try to block the doorway to prevent his owners from leaving.

[driver8]

19. Our dog, Buddy, hates when we leave...

We don't know his history but if he knows we are going to be leaving, he sits right in front of the door. I guess he thinks that this means we won't leave without him. Then, he will lay down so I cannot shut the front door...I have to "slide" him back.

[IntravenousDemilo]

18. A few things...

I had a cat named Arsenio (a big, black cat with no claws and no balls, as seen on TV), and whenever I lit a smoke, he would run to me from wherever he was in the house as soon as he heard my lighter, and insist on batting the flame out with his paw. After that, he'd lick his paw because, I think, he liked the taste of singed hair. I'd flick the lighter again, and he'd do it again. He may have been a fireman in an earlier life.

Arsenio cat also would habitually climb under my bedclothes when I was asleep and I'd wake up with his face buried in my crotch, kneading my stomach and purring. OK, he was a gay fireman before...

My remaining cat Alice, on the other hand, has a passion for the taste of my earwax. She likes to stick her rough tongue in my ear, or if I've just rubbed my itchy earhole with my pinkie, she HAS to lick it off. If I try to hold her away with my other arm, Alice kitty tries desperately to climb over it to get to that earwax, with this wild look in her eyes, reaching out and trying to clutch the earwax hand as if her life depended on it. It's like she's absolutely JONESING for it, so I relent, and she licks her fill and goes away... till next time, which, if my ear is still itchy, is 15 seconds later. I wonder if there's something in earwax that cats naturally need in their diet.

Also, Alice kitty has taken to playing fetch lately. I get these little (1" diameter) 25-cent rubber balls and when I huck one out of the room, she runs after it, comes back in with the ball in her mouth, jumps up onto the couch beside me, and drops it. I throw it again, and she keeps doing it until eventually the ball rolls under the stove or lands in a shoe or something. I'm sure that when I move or do a big cleanup, I'm going to find about 20 rubber balls in various places. Now here's the thing: Alice is going to be 18 in December. I never taught her this trick, and I don't know where it came from.

Both cats were raised on dry cat food and water, never canned stuff, so they shouldn't have associated the sound of the (manual) can-opener with "suppertime", but whenever I would open a can of anything, even vegetables and fruit, both would be there right underfoot, or even better, standing on their back legs with their bodies stretched up almost to the height of the countertop, meowing like crazy. Is there something about the sound of a can-opener that stirs some primal, hindbrain instinct in them that developed 20 million years ago during the Age of Prehistoric Kitchen Gadgets?

[Mutley]

20. My older dog "talks" to me.

She'll look me right in the eye and make these growly/whiny noises at me, then stare as if waiting for a reply. So I'll make the same noise back at her, and so on. LMAO! I have no idea what I'm saying to her, but we have whole conversations. :rofl:

My younger dog is just a bundle of energy. She NEVER stops moving. I can't even get a decent picture of her.